succulence

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Such early cutting, however, adds much to the difficulty of curing the crop, since, while naturally succulent, its succulence is then, of course, considerably more than at a later period.

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  • Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might eat it and perish; and how they placed it in one cunning spot after another; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone, and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark. —  Peter Pan
  • This guarantees succulence and tremendous flavour. —  PR Newswire: All Releases
  • While we still relish their succulence, unknowingly, in brawn, pork pie and the like, we've become rather squeamish about eating trotters in their whole state. —  The Guardian World News
  • Dialectical thinking gives to concepts, by means of closer approximations, corrections, concretization, a richness of content and flexibility; I would even say a succulence which to a certain extent brings them close to living phenomena.
  • Cured meat heaven, bottles of wine on the table for glasses poured on the honor system, and the porchetta ... big, fat succulence. —  Gastronomical Three
 

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